Unpublished Paper
The present study examined the influence that father's residency status and father-child relational qualities have on adolescent psychological adjustment, behavioral outcomes, scholastic achievement, self-identity acculturation, and the subjective well-being of Chinese male immigrants from intact, two-parent households. The relational qualities of interest under investigation consisted of father-son attachment, father involvement, and father acceptance-rejection, from the phenomenological perception of children. A total of 86 participants were included in the overall multivariate analyses -…
Intended for Illinois parents, this book explains how living the Strengthening Families protective factors can assist parents in awakening their potential as parents. Information is drawn from more than 600 Love is Not Enough Parent Cafes that have been held in Illinois over a four year period. At these gatherings, parents came together and shared wisdom and ideas for keeping their families strong and their children safe. An introduction discusses the importance of keeping families safe, protecting a family from the inside out, key protective factors, and ways of building or tearing down…
This booklet is intended to help parents build coping skills in their children during and after a military deployment. The goal is to bring needed support and understanding to the process and to maintain the family well being. Specific and practical guidelines for parents are presented in order to identify age-related reactions and focus on appropriate intervention strategies. By using the information and techniques in this booklet and adding your own unique perspective and expertise, you will become more knowledgeable and better prepared to assist your child during the deployment and…
This text explores the impact of parental incarceration on offender parents, children, and caregivers, reasons for the widespread incarceration of parents, and the intended and unintended consequences of the imprisonment of offenders. It begins with background information on the incarceration rate of the United States, the use of a family perspective to explore the impact of parental incarceration, the use of ecological theory and developmental contextualism to examine parental incarceration, and elements of a context-process-outcome framework. Chapter 2 discusses context and processes…
